Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
BOB GOFFWe need to wash the feet of our enemies.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Love is never stationary.
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Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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